Oops, wrong cave

To continue our celebration of cave-dweller Shimon Bar Yochai's demise, we today went to the most famous cave in Jerusalem, that within the Church of Holy Sepulcher. We wandered (not aimlessly,but pretty close to it) through the Arab and Christian quarters until we found the Seventh Station of the Cross (the first six were too hard to find or too much inside of a closed off mosque on the Temple Mount), then followed the stations to the Church, which houses both the traditional place of crucifixion as well as the tomb. The church is an immense stone structure with meandering tunnels, alcoves and chapels for prayer, and icons icons everywhere. We then went to the Arab shuk to finally buy a backgammon board, then to the everybody-shuk for lunch. Happy Lag Ba'Omer!